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Young people and the car: only one in 8 “under 25” owns one

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ROME – Young people are less and less interested in cars. This is the striking fact that stands out in the latest edition of “Self-portrait 2020″, the statistical publication by the ACI, which photographs the vehicle fleet of regions, provinces and municipalities as of 31 December 2020. The study emphasizes that only a ” under 25 “out of eight (12.2%), own a car. In 2011, the ratio was 1 to 5 (20.8%), practically in ten years the percentage has almost halved (-41.3%).

According to the ACI, the reasons for this decline in interest in the owned car must be found in the management costs (260 euros per month the average expenditure for the car in 2020), in the expansion of new forms of mobility, such as minicars and the spread of the various sharing formulas for cars, bikes and electric scooters. Of completely different opinion are the groups of car owners “over 50” who between 2011 and 2020 recorded an increase of 7.6% (age 51-60), 20.2% (age 61-70), while among the “over 70” the growth was even 38.3%. The situation of the Italian fleet is pitiless, which is confirmed as the oldest in Europe, with 3 million and 800 thousand cars (9.6% of the total) registered before 1993, mostly Euro 0 with at least 28 years of “honored career “. In the ranking by regions, the diffusion of old cars is higher in Campania (18.1%), Calabria (15.7%) and Sicily (14.1%), while the most recent are found in Trentino Alto Adige (2.9 %), Valle D’Aosta (3.1%, thanks to the high percentage of rental cars) and Veneto (6%).

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Bad also as regards the diffusion of ecological models: 2,678,656 (6.7% of the car fleet) run on LPG, 978,832 methane (2.5%), 542,728 hybrids (1.4%), 53,579 electric (0 , 1%), which together make up 10.7% of the fleet in circulation (9.8% in 2019). In this context, the most virtuous regions in percentage values, compared to the total working capital, are Marche and Emilia Romagna followed by Umbria and Veneto, while the less “green” ones are Valle D’Aosta and Sardinia. In absolute terms, however, Emilia Romagna, with almost six hundred thousand units, is the region with the highest number of ecological cars followed by Lombardy and Campania. Finally, the relative figure stands out (in absolute values, they represent only 0.1% of the fleet in circulation) to the increase in electric cars (electric, petrol hybrid, diesel hybrid): on average the growth between 2019 and 2020 it is close to 67%, with peaks of 170% in Valle D’Aosta (where many rental cars are registered and where they are registered offices of large companies) and 139% in Basilicata. On the website of the Automobile Club of Italy, all the detailed data of “Autoritrait 2020” are available. (mr)

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